In an age where a lot of our experience of life and art is dictated through the lens of
objective media like the internet, performance art like Hernandez’s becomes both
more transgressive and sought after.

CAP is the product of several brainstorming sessions aimed at figuring out ways to create a more engaging web publication in the age of rapid sharing, “TL; DR,” and the scrolling headline. We want our readers to engage with the text, examine the images, watch the television shows, and visit the sites mentioned in each […]

Words and Photos by Arthur Underwood On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused the New York City subway system to flood. The lines were shut down, the entrances hurriedly taped off with police tape; “CRIME SCENE — DO NOT CROSS.” With water pouring through the tunnels, New York—a city of people accustomed to nearly constant […]

Words by Phill Pappas Illustration by Shea Cadrin My mother said I’d met Eddie at the swing set in Bannister Park when we were two years old. I don’t remember it. Anyway, he was like a brother to me. Eddie stayed with his uncle, Mike, just down Fulton Street about ten blocks north of my […]

Words by Etan Ilfeld Contemporary Art is constantly evolving and incorporating new artistic practices. It is only a matter of time before a novel technology is appropriated by an artist and utilized as a expressive medium. As a result, Contemporary Art is in a perpetual state of flux. ‘Contemporary history’ refers to the period in […]

photos by Liz Moskowitz Small, white wooden chapels scatter throughout the east side of Austin. These humble structures stand in contrast to larger-than-life places of worship, whose grandiosity is exemplified through the archaic Gothic architecture or the contemporary, suburban “superchurches.” Some of the chapels, with paint peeling in their old age, aren’t unfamiliar with the […]

This summer, I spoke with a handful of female bodybuilders who were competing in the 2012 Naturally Fit Super Show in Cedar Park, Texas. The women I spoke with were professional and amateur, younger and older, mothers and grandmothers.

Words by Katie Walsh Illustration by Liesl Klinkerman “Welcome to the gagapocaplypse,” J. Jack Halberstam states in his most recent book, Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and The End of Normal, a work that engages in the theorizing of contemporary gender relations and their cultural narratives, and the practice of calling for a chaotic upending of […]

Words by Jessica Lipman Illustration by Stav Sela My Life as Liz. It’s bubble gum meets Passion Pit meets displaced Brooklyn hipsterdom. It’s live-action kitsch Daria. It’s the reality version of My So-Called Life, except set in a substantially more media-conscious social sphere than that of the lovely Angela, Rickie and Rayanne. Teetering between narrative […]

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